Gamify Your Commute With This Super Mario-Themed Subway Map

(Update 12/4/2013 3:35pm ET: The Ript site lists the Super Mario NYC subway posters as being sold out, but they’re actually still available. This story has been updated with that information.)

If you walk through parts of NYC during rush hour, it can feel like you’re participating in a videogame — one that combines the dodge-everything antics of Paperboy and the smells of Oscar’s Trash Race for the Atari 2600. If you’d rather feel like you were trapped in a less chaotic (but sometimes just as odorous) game, you can take the subway and buy this Super Mario World-style MTA map.

The New York City subway map/poster is designed by Robert Bacon for Ript, and it comes in two sizes at gift-friendly prices: 18 x 24 inches for $25, and 24 x 32 inches for $45. Bacon has also designed Mario-, Zelda-, and Donkey Kong-themed maps for Chicago’s neighborhoods and “L” trains.

Although the Ript site may say that they’re sold out, the NYC subway posters are still in stock. “They’re having a problem because so many people are ordering them,” writes Bacon. “We still have posters, but the page just needs to be updated.”

There are also a surprising amount of Nintendo-themed subway maps out there for other cities. The whole idea appears to have originated from Dave Delisle’s subway maps, which you can see on his Dave’s Geeky Ideas site. Delisle has been making Mario-flavored subway maps since 2011. He’s the godfather of the genre.

Image courtesy Dave Delisle

Delisle started with a Vancouver Skytrain map, but he has since made follow-up posters for the Calgary, Toronto, Montreal, Portland, Atlanta, and Washington D.C. transit systems. There’s also a MarioKart-themed treatment for the San Francisco Bay Area BART system. Delisle’s multi-city maps are around the same price range: Less than $20 for a 14 x 11-inch print, to about $55 for a 57 x 44-inch print. They’re still in stock, too.